[ale] Mythtv Build-In

[Jeff Hubbs]

I've been hammering intermittently on trying to get MythTV to work for a 
few months now. 

Mostly, I'm finding the whole thing to be very twitchy as far as just 
getting it working goes.  I initially tried to get it going on Gentoo 
and I got as far as getting composite input to work, but when I moved 
the whole thing over to the TV and wired up the output, nothing worked 
right anymore.  I then installed KnoppMyth, but just when I nearly had 
that going, something I did - probably trying to fix something - kept it 
from working right ever again, so I went back to the Gentoo route.  I 
let it sit for about a month and a half while I dealt with other 
crises^H^H^H^H^H^Hthings and I only just recently started working on it 
again - I'm as far as getting X going with the Nvidia (not nv) driver.  
There is Gentoo MythTV info and there's MythTV info, and one kind of has 
to pick through both of them together along with the appropriate IRC 
channel.  Timeliness of documentation is very important; you have to 
know, for instance, that you have to jump ahead of Portage to get an 
8000-series Nvidia or no joy. 

At least I know that my hardware (TV included) functions.  One thing 
that messed me up was that different devices react in different ways to 
having null S-Video input, so, if you're looking at a blank screen when 
you think you ought to be seeing something, one must make sure to 
power-cycle the TV and perhaps the active switcher box in between it and 
the MythTV box.

I also had to do things like buy S-Video cables with rubber-covered 
connectors that I could whittle down in order for the connector to fit 
into the Nvidia card or the TV.

Mike Harrison wrote:

>>we, uh, go to bed early, because our dogs get us up at 5am.. so we 
>>watch TV from 7-9pm most nights. The other nights we sit out on the 
>>porch and watch.... the trees!
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>Porch and Trees.. One of my favorite shows! 
>My house: 1300sqft. My deck:  600+sqft. 
>The view: Awesome. 
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>   And that's why, although I'm bringing my MythTV box to the meeting
>and it's awesome. It's also not been watched or used in weeks..
>Nor has the TV Set.. It's just been too nice outside.
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>But the next meeting, the really technical guy will be Jessee Guardiani, 
>who uses his MythTV box a -LOT- and not just as a PVR, but as a game 
>system, web browser.. etc.. etc..  and has munged and hacked it a lot.
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